Cron Jobs on Alpine

Created: 2021-01-23T19:22:30-06:00

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Alpine uses `crond` which is a cron daemon built in to BusyBox.

Jobs are scripts in /etc/periodical/ which has a number of variations; 15min, hourly, daily, monthly.

I still prefer to install and run fcron because it is more powerful. But maybe you don't need that.